Re: "It is I"

Am Mon, 21 May 2007 16:32:59 -0400 schrieb Brian M. Scott:

On Mon, 21 May 2007 09:55:50 -1000, Bart Mathias
<mathias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:ipadndA_FdDaZMzbnZ2dnUVZ_hmtnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in
sci.lang:

[...]

As I understand it, much of English "grammar" is based on Latin. So I
suppose the Romans must have used the predicate nominative in "It is
___"-equivalent sentences. But I tried it in some languages that I
don't know very well, and it sounds really weird to me:

[...]

"Es ist Ich."
That's wrong.


Other way round, if I'm not mistaken:

Wer ist da?
Ich bin's.


Or "Das bin ich." with the topic in front. (This would be what Bart
intended with "es ist ich".

Joachim
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